>> and a live look at logan international airport in boston where everything is at a stand still at this hour. thousands of fights up and down the east coast groupnded. get the camera out of the snow. the effects of this one felt for days. >> senator tom coburn with a frightening new warning about the future of our economy. >> ir think you'll see the midde class destroyed if we don't do this. >> unemployment headed for 18%. his dire warning and what he thinks needs to happen next. "fox & friends" starts right now! >> that will stop the "fox & friends" singers from singing when you hear thunder and lightning. >> absolutely. >> extreme weather. several states declaring a stat of emergency, of course, because of this storm at this hour. people tweeting right now and

somebody labelled it one of our viewers labelled it snowmageddon. >> people call things like that every year but this one is intense. you should have seen new york city last night. there was thunder and lightning and incredibly high winds here. you're taking a look here at boston, logan international and laguardia, i believe. >> you got reagan. >> reagan international. >> you have the front of our building. if you recognize it. that's the angle overlooking your condo right over there. that's from your house. >> speaking of my condo, it took me about 20 minutes. >> you gave up on describing the boxes? >> it took me 20 minutes to get in last night 30 blocks. >> 30 blocks. >> 30 blocks took 20 minutes because the taxi was fishtailing and the streets hadn't been swept yet. it was quite a white knuckle ride in the taxi yesterday. >> i'm sure they took every precaution because they were attached to you and your welfare. >> listen to this. we have a tweet from somebody

over in cleveland says you eastern peeps are weak. a little snow and everything closes, even the nfl. we get storms like that seven times a year. essentially man up, that's what we're getting from cleveland. >> the nfl game yesterday canceled last night, the philadelphia eagles against the minnesota vikings. minnesota vikings play out in the snow, no, they don't. they play in the dome until it collapses. >> the reason you're not phrased at all because of this snow, he's on the cover of "new york post," this is clayton running without his hairpiece today. look at this. there's the guy on coney island running without a shirt on. >> i didn't think they caught me. >> quite a hairy man with short shorts. >> no, because the rest of the people. >> balmy. >> yeah. i shouldn't have hid that. i was trying to hide the jets fans from the outcome of which they suffered yesterday. >> we thought it was vladimir putin on the front. it was some crazy guy in new york city. >> this is one day that he had a shirt on. no reason to take his picture.

>> several states declaring a state of emergency because of those storms. those states, north carolina, virginia, maryland, maine and massachusetts. that storm also forcing some of the country's busiest airports to shut down. new york's laguardia airport closed. so is newark international in new jersey. j.f.k. airport was closed yesterday but expected to reopen today at noon. >> they say 1500 flights have been canceled just in the new york city metro area alone and you can see if your flight is canceled by logging on to foxnews.com. you can click on the check your flights link on our home page, enter your information and we'll give you the latest information as we have it. you can call the airport yourself, better than calling your airline so here are the numbers for laguardia, newark, j.f.k. logan airports on your screen right now. hopefully we'll have those on our web site as well. >> snow affecting travel. both amtrak or greyhound has delayed several routes along the way. we have both -- we have posted both those numbers on your

screens so you see them. also, long island railroad currently is grounded. >> all right. so for a look at some video from around the country, boston taking a big hit from the blizzard right now. yeah, that is cold right there. up to 20 inches of snow was expected in parts of massachusetts. amtrak has canceled all service from boston to new york. trains were canceled between boston and portland, maine. >> rare sight to be seen in new york city, usually bustling city streets abandoned as people hunker down from the storm. blizzard dropping 20 inches of snow in some parts. the cars that did venture out had a tough time going out. people were fishtailing and crashing into things all night. >> i see a lot of people adjust to the snow or not adjust but taking off the tire usually not good. >> 4 wheel drive. >> yeah, four wheels. >> it depends if you're riding in a rickshaw, you're fine. the blizzard being felt at tampa international. some flights there delayed until tuesday night forcing travelers

to sleep in the airport, the hotel rooms or another way to get where they're going. some are making the best of it looking at their delays as an extended vacation if you're stuck in tampa, not so bad, i guess. >> washington, d.c. is doing pretty well, surprisingly. apparently business as usual this morning. forecasters had predicted up to a foot of snow in that area which would have shut down the government. in the end, the face's capital saw a little more than a flurry. officials say the federal government offices will be open for business on time today. >> all right. and keep in mind, too, this was a big shopping day that got messed up yesterday. i wonder if people will try to give it a shot tomorrow. that's when you go back and continue to exchange everything with your gift receipts or go by and take advantage of sales. i wonder how the economy will be affected. >> certainly when they're expecting it to be one of the largest shopping days of the season, second only to the friday right before christmas which actually beat black friday this year. so that could really hurt the economy. >> for more on what the storm is doing right now, we've called in

our snow guru, what's going on? >> the next big story out of the system is going to be the wind so we are starting to see the worst of the snow wind down around the new york city area southward through jersey. wind is a big deal here. we have wind advisories in the area and the light yellows that you see to the west of new york city. southeast pennsylvania, much of d.c. and parts of northern virginia really covered under these advisories and like you see, they extend all the way south on to parts of western north carolina so very large area here and across the entire area, what you can see will be sustained winds at 20 to 30 miles per hour and then wind gusts at 50 miles per hour and it is likely that we will see some of these advisories begin to trickle into our area here in new york city. even though that blizzard warning for us will be expiring as we head into the noon hour, expecting the winds to continue to be a problem throughout the day. so here are your blizzard warnings, still in effect across our area, new york city,

otherwise, maine still through the evening as we expect that snow to continue to fall out of this storm system. guys? >> thanks, maria. >> well, georgia, we were just saying, too, savannah actually getting a little bit of snow if you can believe that. among the first areas still to be affected. georgia, department of transportation deputy press secretary jill goldberg joining us on the phone with an update. how do things look down there georgia this morning? >> we actually look fairly good across the state. we had a few spots overnight on the far eastern side in columbia county which is near the savannah, augusta area that stopped some travel but everything is getting cleared up right now by our crews. >> jill, we heard that atlanta had its first white christmas in 128 years. what's that area been like for the past 24 hours? >> it was pretty amazing. it was beautiful for the people but a lot of work for the crews on d.o.t. clearing the roads and keeping it safe for motorists especially those who had to come home. it was a beautiful sight for people. >> i was in atlanta for the super bowl when you guys got hit by ice and snow and basically

you needed skates. it was so slick. it was so hard to even walk around. are you finding that today? >> not this morning, this morning it's great. the winds came in early yesterday morning and it has been a tremendous help in getting this cleared up and getting any moisture whisked away. we're in pretty good shape. on covered areas, on the sidewalks, you might find some patches. it's pretty good. i just came in from outside and it's definitely walkable. >> one of the most busiest airports in the world, of course, in atlanta. how are flights looking in and out of atlanta this morning? >> still experiencing delays because of all the canceled flights over the weekend. there were hundreds of flights canceled and now, of course, you have the problems in the northeast and a lot more flights are getting canceled so travelers are doing the best they can but there's a lot of them stranded at the airport right now. >> thanks so much for the update for us from georgia. yeah, i mean, new york city airports go down, they ripple effect across the country. it's huge all day long. >> and then -- sorry, and then when atlanta gets snow as well, that's also an issue which doesn't ever happen.

>> until now. >> until now. meanwhile, other headlines for you. we cover the fox news alert. a package bomb was found at the greek embassy in rome. no one was injured. previous reports of suspicious packages at other embassies were false alarms. the discoveries are followed by package bombs that exploded friday at the chilean and swiss embassies. two people were injured opening those. an anarchist group with ties to greek anarchists claimed responsibility for those and a police officer is dead following a gun battle with armed robbers at a kohl's department store. this happened last night just north of boston in massachusetts. police say the robbers held up the jewelry store just -- jewelry department, i should say, of the store as the store was closing. one of the suspects was also killed in that gun fight. and there's a swine flu outbreak in great britain. 24 people have been killed there by the h1n1 flu strain since the end of october. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention say the

swine flu risks here in the u.s. is still fairly low at this point. r&b singer tina marie known as the ivory queen of soul as passed away after reportedly suffering a seizure. they developed a lasting legacy with hits like "fire & desire" with her mentor rick james. she was signed in 1966 but the label didn't release the music until she joined forces with james three years later. those are the headlines. >> there was so many great things on sunday shows. i loved watching them. guy that stood out was senator tom coburn who said, look, i'm term limiting myself. i'm only going to be here for a short eithperiod of time. i was a doctor before. one of the big problems is they had never been in the real world. it was important to go back in the real world. he is very, very concerned about spending and he thinks we're essentially heading towards greece, becoming greece in a couple of years.

>> or even worse, the fall of the roman empire and he calls it apocalyptic pain if we don't try to curtail some of our spending. here's what he had to say on "fox news sunday". take a listen. >> i think you'll see a 15% to 18% unemployment rate and 8% to 9% decline in g.d.p. and i think you'll see the middle class just destroyed if we don't do this and the people that will be harmed the most will be the poorest of the poor because we'll print money to try to debase our currency and get out of it and what you'll see is hyperinflation so we don't have a lot of options other than living within our means and sending the signal that creates confidence that we can repay our debt. >> like what he's saying here because you're not hearing this from republicans or democrats cutting spending. a lot of people saying what we need to do in the future is cut these certain programs. they're not talking about addressing the spending. he says he can come up with $350 billion off the top of his head that's being inefficiently spent. he can eliminate up to $50 million in programs that are basically duplicating

themselves. that's the most egregious thing. these programs that exist and there's another version of it that's spending the same amount of money. >> the debt everybody is talking about is cutting spending. coming out of the box in the first week, they'll propose $100 billion in spending cuts, program cuts and they also said that the one thing they can get together with the president on is cutting down on entitlement spending so going into making the harsh decisions but that's what mitch mcconnell said. where can you come together on one issue with the president and where are you going to be fighting? one issue we both agree on, we have to go entitlement spending. >> what's so interesting about what he's talking about, you hear people talk about the deafit and how dangerous it is for america's financial health, he has words that are pretty attention grabbing. the fact that he said apocalyptic pain is a big deal. he gave specifics, that he used the 18% unemployment rate, that gets your attention and he also said something interesting, that the u.s. only has 3 to 4 years, he believes, to get this under control before it becomes the apocalyptic point so i mean,

he's saying that. he also was on the deficit panel so he knows what he's talking about, all the ones that proposed the important cuts, not just discretionary spending which are some of the billions you're talking about but doing the hard work of the entitlement program. >> right. it's so easy to talk about the programs when it's a little bit of earmark spending that doesn't amount to a whole lot. when you talk about addressing the problems of medicare, medicaid, social security and defense, when you get those, that's when the real cuts need to come. >> they have to come from both sides. one will use it as a hammer against the other in a couple of years in the election if it gets to that. coming up straight ahead, talk of death panels has all of america talking so democrats killed the proposal but now the white house is sneaking it back in. you have to hear what is about to happen to you. >> then the profanity patrol is hitting the streets. police writing tickets for swearing in public. >> oh, no! >> you're in big trouble. is this a good idea? it costs one guy $500. >> rex ryan, $5 million. >> and the storm wreaking havoc

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>> 60,000 customers in southeast massachusetts, martin joins us now from boston's logan airport. looks like things have gotten a little bit better, martin. >> brian, yeah, some breaks in this storm here and there. but overall, it's coming down pretty strong. now, the shuttle buses are arriving in back of me but really, there's not much need to because most airlines canceled flights in and out of logan last night. and as we take a look inside the terminal, you can see that some of the folks had to sleep in the terminal last night. the only thing running at logan

early this morning were the snow plows trying to clear the runway. some of those airline travelers got vouchers for hotels but others will play the waiting game all day today looking to get flights out. one of the problems here is the flights have come -- the flights have flown in here but they're not able to get out. not enough planes are sitting at logan to get flights going today. that's one of the problems among many here at logan this morning. >> we'll check in and hopefully we'll get something open because we hear j.f.k. could open by noon. thanks a lot, martin. >> will do. thanks. >> take it away. >> thank you, brian. there was quite a controversy when president obama first introduced the end of life plan as far as the health care plan known as death panels or so-called death panels as called by sarah palin. congress killed it. now they're back somehow. joining us to explain this,

former deputy secretary of health and human services is joining us this morning. explain this to us. this quietly seemed to happen during christmas. everybody is out of town and "the new york times" picks up on this story and everyone is scratching our heads that the death panels somehow are back. explain how this happened. >> how convenient, right, clayton? what happened here is there was this provision about end of life care and end of life care is a serious issue, it costs $55 billion for people the last two months of their life in medicare every year. so it's a serious issue and the obama tried to jam it through in their politically controversial health care bill. the health care bill they made the bill through but they lost the provision because it was too controversial even for their health care bill. >> well, the white house is pushing back against this "new york times" story and what they're saying is "the times" story is wrong. here's what they say. the benefit is signed into law under president bush. only thing new here is a regulation allowing the discussions about it. authorized in 2003 by the prescription drug benefit.

to happen in the context of the new annual wellness visit created by the affordable health care act so all of this done. tev, under president bush oochlt. >> it's not fair to say all is done under president bush. end of life care is important issue that we need to have a serious adult conversation about. obama administration trying to accelerate the issue in the legislation. they couldn't get it through and now they're pushing regulations through around christmastime when they know people aren't paying as much attention. as they've seen, however, people are paying attention to this issue because it's so controversial. what we need to do is have a bipartisan serious conversation about this issue because it is costing us a lot of money but you can't do it through end of night, nontransparent behind closed doors approach. >> i think that's what caught us all off guard, right? everyone is out of town quietly sneaking this in and "the times" piece speaks to a democrat, got their hands on an e-mail that shocked all of us. part of the e-mail says it is

longer that this goes unnoticed, the better our chances of keeping it. in essence, democrats want to keep this thing quiet so it gets pushed through and the american public is not aware of it. >> because they saw how politically controversial it was and what a big stink it made, this was one of the most controversial provisions that couldn't even make through and as you saw, the health care bill costs them the control of the house, six seats in the senate so they know that this is political dynamite they're playing with. >> at the end of the day, though, sarah palin when they first called these things death panels, what she was hitting on wasn't so much what they were doing, is whether or not government should be deciding this end of life process in a family anyway. >> yeah, the important question is -- i think people need to have information. i think people to make decisions. i think long term decisions about what to do with someone who is terminally ill and how to handle that is an important but sensitive issue. and has a lot of moral and ethical implications. what people are uncomfortable with is the government mandating

it saying you must have this kind of directive and also if the government pushes you towards a certain type of decision, i think that's what gets people really uncomfortable. >> appreciate you joining us on this blustery morning. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> important political moments of 2010 and a quick look back outside -- i'm sorry, a quick look outside. i got snow in my eyes thi morning. might make you wonder what happened to global warming? the man who is predicting this weather better than scientists. we'll explain what's really happening. i ha fallen in love with makg bird houses.

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>> 23 minutes past the hour. some quick headlines and a fox news alert for you because amtrak just announcing minutes ago that it will resume service between new york and boston on a limited schedule today. service had been suspended yesterday because of the massive east coast blizzard. amtrak says travelers should still be prepared for delays and that powerful winter storm wreaking havoc on the roads. you're looking at video out of providence, rhode island, where a car collided with a snow plow on an icy highway. >> 2010 has been full of big political moments, some having a bigger impact than others. which ones will matter most next year? joining us right now is richard goodstein, former clinton-gore advisor and democratic strategist and up early for us ais a republican strategist.

richard, if you would point out one thing that stood out for you, what would it be from this past year going into the next one? >> it's the continued asend si of sarah palin. it's not quite a moment. if you look at her being a darling on the right, being a big presence on tv with her own show. these bookstores are a huge success. the endorsements she's made got her people at the top of the ticket in many states like christine o'donnell and so forth and if you look going forward into 2011, does she run? if she does, who takes her on? and how does that person manage to do it without alienating her supporters? if she doesn't, who gets her endorsement? >> it's fascinating because no republicans really takes her on at all. no fellow would be presidential contenders. not yet. it's got to change. what stands out for you? >> look, i think sarah palin is merely an effect of the larger story.

health care reform also known as obama care or the affordable care act is without a doubt the top story. in 2009 when we started hearing about obama's plans for health care, it caused the birth of the tea party movement which ultimately gives sarah palin to people like christine o'donnell, sharon angle and others their power. not only did the health care give the birth to the tea party movement, it also provides us a situation in 2012 where it's going to be a significant issue. out of the 63 seats that the democrats just lost, the polling shows that health care was one of the top three issues. now that the lower court has said that the government mandate of coverage is illegal, it's going to be an issue in 2012 and i think it's something that obama is looking towards not so well in, you know, debating back and forth in the 2012 campaign, but i think now that the -- >> i think one of the biggest

surprises was that the democrats didn't want to bring it up but the republicans were dying to bring it up. they might have gotten success because of it. as we look ahead, you think cap and trade is also dead. do you believe the same thing? >> i think cap and trade as we know it is dead. incidentally, all this talk about the snow somehow suggesting we're not having global warming is idiotic. we just came off the single warmest year recorded on the globe in history. cap and trade, however, has been demonized successfully. i think china is cleaning our clock. if the u.s. doesn't do something about it, we'll look back and wonder what the heck were we thinking? >> all right, richard goodstein, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> all right, let's move ahead. cops writing tickets for swearing in public. it just costs one guy $500. are you kidding? that monster storm continues to dump snow across the northeast. maria melino is here with a live update of where it's headed next and how it affects you. stranded at sea, these men

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moment. and then on the right is a train. >> huntington, new york, that's the long island railroad. it looks like it's rolling. this morning when we started the show, it was not rolling. >> reagan international airport in the brady bunch box in the lower left, reagan international doing ok. they didn't get but a few flurries down there but still all sorts of flights canceled out of reagan international and to the lower right, that's our studios here on sixth avenue but the times square box looks a little dubious. they cleaned off the streets here. that's the only spot that you can actually see pavement. >> right outside, we have about 12 inches there. that hasn't been done. you clear it off with the plows but the wind keeps howling. >> you can see outside of our studios, lower right hand corner there that midtown streets have not been cleared off. when we drove in here yesterday, we came in to stay at hotels, we didn't think we'd be able to make it in this morning and my taxi ride was harrowing. the fishtailing. buses fishtailing, getting stuck, pretty intense. >> look at this picture.

i just published in picture on twitter, look at the snow banks. look at this. you can't -- people are walking in the middle of the streets. you need to go to twieter to -- >> we can zoom in. >> that's why we woke him up this morning. look at the drifts, that high, you can't walk in the middle center dividing line. you have to walk in the middle of the street. i passed all these people standing in the middle of the street. >> right. >> listen, i'm clayton morris. by the way, that was way too small to show. >> exactly. thanks for making me show it. >> maria, do you have any pictures to show us? this picture right here. i wanted to show you actually in cape cod, we do have reports of 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts being reported so the storm, the center of the storm just right to the south of cape cod and we're actually not getting snow there. we're actually getting rain from

warmer air beginning to shift into that area. otherwise, snow falling heavily across parts of boston, hartford, albany and starting to clear out a bit in new york city and southwest across parts of philadelphia. however, snow showers will linger out there throughout the rest of your morning for your morning commutes. heading northward, seeing a lot of snow across parts of maine, even throughout vermont and that accumulation will continue here throughout the rest of your morning hour and even into your early afternoon. if you are headed out, got to go to work or something, it's got to be cold out there. bundle up, temperatures in the 20's. 24 in philly. 23 new york and that's not really a big deal. the big deal is when you factor in the wind, it feels like single digits in philly. 10 in new york. and starting to get subzero out there in burlington and syracuse. 2 below zero out there. so not too bad here in new york. >> no, the wind is what was intense last night. we were going head long, my family and i, out to dinner. just putting our head, you know, at a perpendicular angle to the

wind to get one block to the restaurant. >> one night of the week weeks going to go out for date night tonight. >> adventure with the kids. >> you know why? you laughed at me when i bought you shields for the christmas present. it was perfect. like batman trying to repel one of the evil doers. >> i laughed at you when you bought me the hoody footy, like rabbit suit to wear. i wore it throughout christmas. >> brilliant! you could have used this in philadelphia last night, too bad the eagles didn't play. right now, the philadelphia airport spokesperson this morning. are you feeling the pinch this morning? we haven't heard about all your delays this morning? we've been reporting about new york here, boston and reagan. how is philadelphia doing this morning? >> good morning. well, we certainly didn't get hit as badly as you did. we were able to maintain an open runway throughout the entire storm and through the night so we've been operational as much as possible. we did have about 700 flights

that were canceled yesterday and this morning we're showing a little over 200 flights canceled. many the result of the smaller planes that weren't able to get in last night. >> and victoria, i mean, obviously, i don't have to tell you what a bummer it is for travelers around the holiday season who get stuck at an airport. we've heard reports of people sleeping on luggage pullies and people sleeping on the floor. what does it look like inside philly international right now? >> we have about 1,200 passengers that were stranded here overnight. we have a hospitality program in place where we're able to offer pillows, blankets, food, water, juice, diapers when asked for and there are people who are sleeping. not as comfortable if they were where they were hoping to get but they're here. >> you know, i'm a philly boy so i can appreciate the tiny roads that are in center city and these really small roads. >> historic. >> historic and some of these roads are like four feet wide, by the way, where do you put the

snow? sanitation crews getting all the snow out of the way. are people able to get to the airport if you have flights going on? >> yes, in fact, our road crews have been maintaining i-95, the major corridor to the airport. we also maintain the roads that come into the airport, the arrivals and departures road. i can't speak for the snow in the city right now but i know we have melters on the tarmac and able to put it directly into the melters and melt it. so we do not have piles of snow. >> good idea. thank you very much. update of what's happening in philadelphia. that's all clayton thinks about. big relief for him. thank you. by the way, i got to -- i'm hearing for the first time, maybe i've had a blockout to it. i have one of the robo calls my town supervisors saying clean out the hydrants if you can. guys need to get to the hydrants. other thing that's important, if you don't want to get to work, a lot of people are using twitter on our show saying i have a subaru but i didn't tell my

boss. my sub raru gets me everywhere. the minute i say that, they expect me to come to work. >> don't read their names. >> i'm wanot going to read thei names. >> or a truck. >> you never get that attitude in new york. very rare to see or read. >> that's right. >> nothing like a massive blizzard to revive the debate about global warming. i mean, it has been the snowiest, coldest winter thus far, i think, in europe, for a long time and certainly in the southeast here, florida has been cold so people are saying remember all the dire predictions of global warming that the entire earth would be getting a couple of degrees warmer, what's happened to those predictions? >> and south carolina, you bring up a great point. south carolina receiving their first ever white christmas on record. they may have had a white christmas. south carolina having a white christmas and a u.k.

meteorologist saying guess what? we're not headed for global warming. we're headed for an ice age. >> that's the issue. every time it gets cold, people will say it's global warming. they say see, don't jump on us like michael we just had on. this is the coldest, this has been the warmest year on record. it depends on where you are to say that. >> we had a scientist on "fox & friends" a few weeks ago with a new documentary film that says there's broad consensus among all scientists that the earth is warming in some capacity. then you have this other scientist saying that's not the case. and "the new york times" publishing the story talking about global warming saying it is happening but because global warming is happening we're getting these massive weather extremes. we're seeing snow in north carolina as a result of global warming. >> they no longer use the term global warming. they use climate change so there will be wild fluctuations they now predict in weather though they used to say it would be warmer and there was an op ed yesterday in "the new york

times" that basically said you know how sometimes it's too cold for snow? too cold for it to snow. it has to be a little warmer for us to get these massive blizzards. look, it's all over the map. i mean, the u.n. panel on this predicted so we would see warmer winters and that's not what has come to pass. >> 2010 was a disaster for climate change for the scientists that fudge the records and for copenhagen that resolve nothing. meanwhile, the scientists that predicted the u.k. would be buried in snow and predicted europe would have this type of winter will be joining us in about an hour. >> good. we'll ask him some questions. >> hour and a half. >> scientists will ask the scientists. we could have been, we chose to focus on other things. >> such as your headlines. >> of course. let's get to those right now. we start a fox news alert. check out the brand new video dominating the air waves in north korea after the christmas weekend. this isn't "it's a wonderful life" and it's not even "miracle

on 34th street" north korea's state tv is showing this newly edited propaganda video featuring father and son, communist rulers around the clock. that's interesting. >> i fell for it. >> arizona republican lawmaker has been attacked and beaten to unconsciousness. this happened at his pool supply business on christmas day. representative frank pratt is in stable condition this morning at a phoenix area hospital. doctors say he has multiple bruises and contusions. place say the 68-year-old pratt was tied up after the beating and the suspect is still on the loose at this hour after stealing pratt's s. u.v. check out this dramatic footage of a rescue in rusty's, 15 people, oh my goodness, hanging on for their lives standing on the hull of a capsized ferry. this had been hit by 15 foot waves and several cars broke loose from chains that were supposed to secure them to the deck of that ship. that caused the ferry to roll

over. luckily, everyone on board was rescued and no one was seriously hurt. well, a milwaukee man gets a $500 ticket for swearing on a bus. the man who got the ticket, terry duncan admitted the two words that started with an f and an s. >> and end with? >> [beep]. [beep]. >> thank you, vanna. >> he was stunned when he was ordered off a bus by an undercover deputy and was handed a disorderly conduct ticket. i hope this isn't happening in new york. duncan says the ticket infringes on his right to free speech, milwaukee police say it's a quality of life issue. wow! >> ok. that's the word to the wise. clayton. >> i mean, they're down to the lowest common denominator. they're out of crime and now they're finding crime. >> the saggy pants bill. >> that's how they can restock their coffers with a lot of money. >> fantastic. >> makes the belt industry very happy, finally cracking down. at 19 minutes after the top of

the hour, our next guest called the titanic, well, he makes big -- let me try that again. is called the titanic, i should say that, that makes more sense. big bets on anything and everything and constantly seeks his opponents. what's his trick? >> airports not the only place looking at massive delays. live look at huntington, new york wrt blizzard is causing a lot of problems on the rails. this train is moving a few minutes ago. so, during sign thee i can get a cc for just my signature? that's right, right now you can take home a volkswagen for just your signature. like the cc, or the tiguan. huh. yeah, plus every vw includes scheduled carefree maintenance. really? that's great. there you go. oh, that guy's pretty good too. ye, he's ok. [ male announcer ] it's amazing what you can do with a pen. sign then drive is back. for a limited time get any 2011 volkswagen for practically just your signature.

>> welcome back to "fox & friends." alvin titanic thompson was the greatest gambler in u.s. history. he would bet the biggest names on about anything and would set up the odds beforehand so he could never lose. thompson crisscrossed america in search of hot poker games, high stakes golf and other lucrative pastimes. his incredible life is documented in the new book "titanic thompson, the man who bet on everything." >> sounds like a movie. the author of this fascinating

story joins us with some of his greatest feats. good morning. >> how did you become aware of this guy? >> golfers talk about him, old time professional golfers have got titanic's stories. the amazing titanic thompson who blazed his trail through the 20th century. great golfer in his own right, both left-handed and right-handed but if he couldn't beat you, he would find a way to cheat you. >> i love some of the bets -- here's a guy who had -- i don't know what you want to say, enough bravado to bet against al capone. he bet he could hit a golf ball 500 yards. even tiger woods. what's the furthest drive he could hit? he bet al capone he could drive a golf ball 500 yards. >> he didn't say when he would do it. it's mid summer when he makes the bet. then it becomes a day like this. and he said i feel that 500 yard drive coming on. leads a caravan of gamblers out to a lakeside golf course. gets ready to hit the ball. turns around. faces the lake and drives the

ball on to the ice and it's still bouncing along as he collects the money. >> brilliant. fantastic. what about this bet? he bet that a dog could find a rock in the river marked with an x filled with x rocks the night before. >> that's right. well, that was the first real big bet that titanic thompson made. as a boy, he won a bet with a fellow winning a shiny rod and reel saying my dog is such a good fetching dog, i'll throw this rock and he'll come out with the same rock. to prove it's the same rock, i'll mark it with an x. tosses the rock in, the dog fetches that rock with the x marked on it and, of course, titanic had been out there the night before hours after hours marking x's on rocks and throwing them into the water. always had a way to win the bet. >> brilliant. not only against another crime boss and, he bet that people on the street would have the same birthday. how did he figure this out? >> he understood statistics in a way that -- in the days before

computers, titanic had a computerlike mind. this is called the birthday paradox. they still study it in statistics classes. if you get 30 or more people, two of them are very likely to have the same birthday. so titanic would bet on that and all he needed was to have the odds in his favor. >> here's the thing that's crazy. you're doing this with mobsters who kill people. when they find out the game is rigged, they don't take that too well. >> you have to defend yourself and be handy with a colt 45 which titanic thompson sure was. he killed five men in his time and never went to prison for it because the police generally thanked him for doing away with the fellas who came after him. he was quite handy with the gun as he was at pool, at dice, at poker, at golf, at all the games that he played. >> all right. i guess one last one is he bet $5,000 that the next new jersey license plate would be a better poker hand than the next new york plate. hired a man to drive past with a 333 in his new jersey plate. >> that's right.

titanic saw somebody with something like that, he would set the bet up in advance and he's guaranteed to win the bet. >> brilliant. so you're hoping that maybe clint eastwood will give you a call soon. he'd be the perfect guy to play this? >> anybody with enough charisma to carry the day can play titanic. he's really one of the most remarkable characters in american history, i think. >> sounds like a perfect script for a movie. i would love to see the movie and read the book. the book is called "titanic thompson, the man who bet on everything." >> i think clayton wants to be in the movie. that will come up during the break. if you need a young version of titanic. >> i didn't say handsome. >> he could own the dog that picks up the x rocks, perhaps. all right, meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, if you filled up your tank for the storm, you'll know gas prices are way up. in some places, $0.06 in a week. what's going on? we've seen this game before. why is it happening? >> let's ask titanic thompson. policies snuck through over holiday. what is the white house trying to hide? dana perino is coming up.

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>> crude oil prices rising close to $92 this morning which means prices at the pump are jumping as well. so why now? fox business network's rich edsen is live in washington,

d.c. to help us explain what's driving up the cost of crude. rich? >> well, it's cold out there and the colder it is, more folks use oil. that's driving up the price a little bit. on the other side of us, this is kind of a good thing. folks out there think the u.s. economy is improving. when you have an improving economy, a better world economy, that means more folks are consuming oil and the more oil you use, the less there is, the higher the price. that's a bit of what we're seeing these days. >> that's the silver lining. remember a couple of summers ago when gas prices were northward of $4. are we headed in that direction again? >> there's some analysts are concerned we'll have more than $100 a barrel. right now we're at $90 a barrel. that summer, we peaked somewhere around $150 a barrel. that really shot up. a lot of analysts out there didn't see that coming. it's hard to predict. if the economy moves pretty quickly it gets much colder out there. more people are using oil and the prices will keep moving up.

>> should the u.s. be doing something to stave off spikes like that right now? >> what we're seeing and this is something the congress has been talking about for sometime is ways to get the united states off oil. we're dependent on foreign sources of oil, the cap and trade proposal, major energy proposal that the president had and the democrats had cooking up a couple of years ago is basically dead. you won't see that through congress this year. that leads the way for other energy proposals out there, electric fuel standards will be building more nuclear power plants, something that bipartisan senators and lawmakers have been talking about. there are ways to reduce dependence on oil and try to get us on something that could possibly down the road be more cheaper. if you're talking about the summer drive time or even maybe next week or next month, what congress can do about oil prices, not much. tax cut is coming next year. much of that will go to paying the higher oil prices. >> thanks so much. all right. let's go over to clayton and brian. >> thanks. back to the big blizzard of

2010. some of the most problematic snow falling in new york city. now the bustling city looking like a snow covered ghost town. we're here. lisa is here from the fox affiliate wnyw. >> we're here on west 72nd street and broadway, usually one of the busiest intersections here in new york city but take a look at west 72nd street now, there's hardly any traffic and practically whiteout conditions. now, that hasn't stopped some of the city buses. they're slowly making their way trying to pick up people. not too many passengers right now. but all night long, there's been a lot of cars and vehicles being stuck on the roads. underneath the snow, there's also a lot of ice. taxis are making their way. we've seen some of them stuck. there's a lot of people that are still out and about determined not to let this storm ruin a sunday of a holiday weekend but take a look at how bad it is. that's a subway station right there. the underground trains are moving pretty well. but this kind of heavy equipment from the sanitation department, the plows, they're about the

only ones that are getting through on these streets without too much trouble but we've seen seen lightning strikes tonight. that's how strange this storm has been and it just keeps on coming. in new york city, i'm lisa evers, fox 5 news. >> lisa is buried in the snow drift out there. >> get her out momentarily. that's on the ground but there are also planes grounded. 1500 in the new york city area alone. trains are stuck this morning in more than a foot of snow. we're going to have the latest on this blizzard for you in just two minutes. >> here's a question for you. do you want the government telling you when to die? the death panels were left out of the health care overhaul but come january 1st, they are back. dana perino weighing in at the top of the hour. ss in my chest. so i went back to my doctor again. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma symptoms all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. symbicort will not replace a rescue inhaler

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so i checked out all the opons and found a better plan to fit my budget. well, you know what they say. oh! "knowledge is power." whew! [ male announcer ] visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare. >> good morning, everyone. it's monday, december 27, 2010. right now, a massive blizzard is crippling the east coast dumping more than a foot of snow. grounding airplanes and making it impossible to travel in or out of here. when will this end? what's next? we're live on this winter state of emergency. >> and yes, should the government tell you how and when to die? on january 1st, president obama will re-introduce his end of life planning for medicare patients. are the so-called death panels really making a comeback? >> to help him get elected, tea partiers are telling

massachusetts senator scott brown to shape up or they'll ship him out. sounds like something my grandma used to say. shape up or ship out. "fox & friends" continues right now. >> there's the sound effect we need because it is a state of emergency in at least six states this morning because of this massive winter storm. those states are north carolina, virginia, maryland, new jersey, maine and massachusetts. here are some examples for you of what it looks like at this hour up and down the eastern seaboard. >> yeah and some of the airports also shut down. you have a lot of weary travelers trying to get out, back to their home countries. back to other states. newark's laguardia airport closed and j.f.k. airport closed -- was closed yesterday but expected to be reopened at noon today. logan airport is opened but all flights in and out have been

ground grounded. >> you can see if your flight is actually canceled, go to foxnews.com. check it out. click on "check your flight" click on the home page. ent you are your information. we won't look. call the airports yourselves. the numbers for laguardia, newark, j.f.k., logan airports all on the screen right now. clayton read them in the first hour. you can play it back to yourself. >> hopefully we have them on the web site. it's better to call the airport than call your airline because your airline phone answerer may be somewhere in austin, texas and may not know what's going on at j.f.k. we should say the storm is affecting the train and bus travel. numbers you put up there on your screen. amtrak announcing just moments ago that it will resume service between new york and boston today. but that service is limited. delays are very likely. you're not going anywhere today. >> don't know if cafe service on amtrak is shut down were that's a problem. >> that would be a problem. >> usually so fresh. >> absolutely.

>> let's bring in maria malina tracking this storm with where it's headed right now. what is the update? >> basically, much more. same. snow winding down here in new york and picking up some more accumulation across parts of maine and also through vermont and i wanted to point out, this is the storm that brought on that rare white christmas across parts of the southeast and guys, it is confirmed yesterday we had reports of flurries in jacksonville, florida, so this storm brought some snow to jacksonville. while there was no accumulation, still very unusual so just crazy storm system. that's also the same storm that brought flooding and mudslides to southern parts of california last week. so crazy storm just moving across the country. still bringing in those problems across parts of new england throughout the rest of today with that snow and that wind also extending as far west as parts of kentucky and tennessee feeling those winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour especially in the higher elevations. center of the country is pretty quiet out there.

as we head out west, there's another frontal system that will be impacting parts of seattle into portland as we head to the later hours of the day. for now, just some clouds. not a whole lot going on and some light showers and as we head into the next couple of hours here, this is 9:00 p.m. on monday, that snow will continue to exit out of the new england. with some lingering snow showers, blizzard warnings for most of them will have expired by then and here is that other storm across the west coast, seattle expecting plenty of rain and also down into the coast of oregon. and then as we head into mid week on wednesday, that storm will continue to move southward so we're going to have to keep an eye once again on parts of southern california for more heavy rain. >> wowee. >> that's the way to say it. wowee. >> good morning. >> seeing that in the prompter is something. >> you're looking at new video out of new york city right now, one of the hardest hit areas. the blizzard dumping more than a foot of snow bringing winds up to 40 miles per hour to the big

apple. more than 2,000 cleanup crews working around the clock to clear the city's 6,000 miles of streets. wowee. >> wowee. boston is also, of course, taking a big hit from the blizzard at this hour, up to 20 inches of snow expected in parts of the commonwealth. travelers, those poor travelers at logan international airport, they're having their patience tested this morning. >> you know, we thought we made it. we thought we were going to be the last plane out but then, you know, it turned sour so just got to deal with it. >> yeah, i mean, you have to deal with it but gosh, it's such a bummer to be stuck at the airport for two days with just a pillow that they give you. 60,000 people are without power in southern massachusetts this morning. >> extreme weather in the southeast as well. atlanta got its first white christmas in over 120 years. there was snow as far south as savannah. in the carolinas, snow totals range from a couple of inches in south carolina up to a foot in raleigh, north carolina. the snow reportedly caused

thousands of fender benders but everybody is insured. >> it's a much different story in washington, d.c. there, the nation's capital dodged the blizzard bullet. and it got no more than a light dusting. all federal government offices will reportedly be open for business on time today. >> and there are travel horror stories all over the place. joining us on the phone now is marisa fernandez. she says her brother david has been stuck on a brooklyn bound train since 8:00 p.m. last night. what is he saying at this hour? have you talked to him? >> i spoke to him, in fact, got a call this morning, he has been on the train probably since about 8:00 last night. and he is at the point where he doesn't feel cold anymore. he's completely numb. he's in a lot of pain. of course, they can't use the facilities. >> where is the train stuck? and are authorities aware that it's stuck and are they doing anything to help? >> he has gotten no

information. the authorities are aware as far as i know. i don't know if they're doing anything. i'm hoping that they are. the power is completely shut off. the train is stuck before the aqueduct train station, i believe. >> where was your brother coming from? and how long of a trip was it supposed to be? >> he was coming from j.f.k. airport. he works at the airport. and he was going to brooklyn. i'm not sure how long of a commute that is. for him, it might be like 1 1/2 hour commute for him. >> right. so is there -- there's some of these trains that go from j.f.k. that don't have conductors on them. they don't have drivers on them. they're just trains that run back and forth. is that one of them? >> i'm not sure if there's a conductor on his train. i know he was supposed to take the air tram but that was not working as well so he jumped on the train. >> so at this hour, what's he asking you to do?

how many other people are on with him? >> he says that there's about 100 people and they're all in the middle of the train. and like i said, you know, there's no power, they're cold, they're hungry, they're at the point where there's numbness and pain. >> did you say that they have power? >> no. >> they don't have power. >> that's unbelievable. >> well, hopefully -- please keep us updated and if there's anything we can do to make sure authorities are aware of this issue, hopefully they are and hopefully i know that they're working very hard to get this thing back up and running, thanks for sharing your story with us this morning. >> thank you. >> no heat? i mean, it's bitter out there. >> not an amtrak plane where you have power plugs to plug in. it's a new york city subway. there's no bathrooms. and there's no bathrooms and there's no power to plug anything into. >> people are strand up and down the east coast. >> i don't understand how long they can't get to them. since 8:00 last night. we're seeing cops going back and forth out here.

>> hopefully in the next two hours they will. we'll bring you an update if we get that. it has been confirmed now a package found this morning outside of the greek embassy in rome did contain some type of explosive device. fortunately, that bomb did not explode and no one was injured. earlier reports of additional suspicious packages at the embassies of venezuela, monaco and denmark were all false alarms. these discoveries following a scare last week when package bombs did explode at the chilean and swiss embassies, an anarchist group is claiming responsibility for these. update on last week's terror rides in the united wikingdom. the men are suspected of planning a large scale terror attack aimed at british landmarks and public faces. while you're sleeping, former alaskan senate candidate joe miller announced he will not stand in the way of lisa murkowski being certified as the

winner of alaska's senate race. but this morning, miller will tell a federal judge that he intends to take his legal battle over the way the votes were counted to federal court. miller says election officials violated the state constitution allowing write-in votes that had murkowski's name misspelled on them. he said he's going ahead with the federal lawsuit "for the sake of the integrity of the election" and there's a swine flu outbreak in great britain. 24 people have been killed there by the h1n1 flu strain since the end of october. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention say the swine flu risk here in the u.s. is still fairly low. those are the headlines. >> all right, now to bring in dana perino on with chris wallace yesterday but observing all the sunday shows. welcome back. >> good morning. >> you wanted to bring up something else. everybody was caught up in the lame duck congress and what they were passing but there's other stuff that slid through under the wire. what are you talking about? >> well, there's a time honored tradition that any administration or executive branch when they start to

realize that the congress is going to thwart their ambitions they look for other ways they can get their policies made and put their stamp on washington before they leave. two days before christmas, i believe on the 23rd, the white house announced that e.p.a. and interior department were going to go forward with rules, it's called rules, their rule making process, regulations, one of them being dealing with wilderness areas in the country and another one, which i think is a little more onerous especially when it comes to the economy is regulating green house gas emissions. this is basically figuring out a back door way to get to a cap and trade scheme even though they admit that the gift that they gave to the environmental lobby for christmas is not going to really make that much of a dent when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the world which is what we really need to do to solve that problem. this is just one in many examples through health and human services, treasury

department, energy, transportation, this is where the obama administration is going to start to make their mark on washington, through the executive branch. >> well, you just said it right there in the lead-in, this is a time honored tradition, something all administrations seem to do when they can't get the votes in congress. they go around congress. in fact, your boss, president bush, said, you know, if congress wasn't going to improve ambassador bolten for the u.n. he said we're going to push it through in a recess appointment and that angered harry reid who was minority leader at the time. doesn't this happen with every administration? >> recess appointments are one thing and i would think the most -- your example is one thing. john bolten did not become the ambassador to the u.n. think about the center for medicare services which arguably the most important person after the secretary of health and human services for implementing obama care. berwick is his name. the obama administration basically locked him from ever having to have a hearing and never had to make his case and answer a lot of questions that

people had. so that's set aside. that's recess appointments. this is regulations. and so, for example, one of the things that they'll push forward is all the financial regulations and the financial regulatory reform bill. they have to be finished by 2011. now, it's a good thing that it makes the administration have a record to run on. also, well, not necessarily subject to congressional review, it is subject to judicial review. so the judicial branch in our system will have a chance to take a look at it. on the e.p.a. regulation that i mentioned from december 23rd, one of their pieces is that it would be reasonable. well, their definition of reasonable would be quite broad. and so the judicial branch is the one that can put a check on that. >> dana, speaking of new regulation, let's talk about something that's happening this weekend and this was such a lightning rod over the summer. this is the end of life counselling and basically what president obama it sounds like has decided to do is sign some

regulation, assert some regulation that medicare can now cover these conversations between doctors and patients end of life counseling, the so-called death panels. is this worrisome? did he have to go in this round about way because there was such a firestorm about it months ago? >> well, during the legislative process, they did have to take it out of the legislation in order to get it passed. what's interesting is that the former -- a congressman out of oregon wrote an e-mail basically telling everybody, don't worry. we'll be able to get this through the back door which is what they've been trying to do. so what he said was that it would cover -- it's not just that it would cover those conversations which those conversations might be good to have at least starting now, right, for everybody. it's that it would direct them to do so and incentivize them to do so. basically telling doctors we will pay you to have these discussions and it feeds

people's paranoia when it's done in the back room. if this is good policy, they can do it transparently and openly but they've chosen not to which feeds the concern that everybody has about this bill. >> here's the quote from this white house. "the times" story is wrong. the benefit was signed into law against president bush. only thing new here is regulation line discussions authorized in 2003 by the prescription drug benefit to happen in the context of the new annual wellness visit created by the care act. your response? >> well, i think people -- and you know, i would invite reporters to actually look into that a little bit more. in 2003 for the prescription drug benefit, there was an initial exam. a welcome to the medicare exam and it was supposed to promote health and disease prevention. that was in 2003. in 2010, the obama care law allowed for annual wellness visits so trying to connect those two, i think, is a little bit specious and i would caution reporters to be weary of that

comparison. >> you're giving credit to the reporters that know what aspecious is. they helped him get elected but now they are telling scott brown if he doesn't listen up, they're going to vote him out. >> do they know he's from massachusetts? we're keeping an eye on the blizzard slamming the east coast. if you're traveling be prepared to go nowhere fast. pull over. see if alisyn's home is around. invited in to stay the night. fantastic. ring ring. progresso. oh yes hi. can you please put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. anotr person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soup huh? i'm told she's in the garden picking herbs. she is so cute. okay i'll hold. she's holding. wha?

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other democrats on the start treaty. what do you make of all of this? >> don't ask, don't tell, too and financial regulation. >> shape up or ship out, they're saying. >> whenever you elect somebody, they're never going to be all things to all people and i think senator brown has shown he can be a great senator for the state of massachusetts and reflecting a majority of the values well. on start treaty, he wasn't the only one. 67 senators had to vote to pass that and it's -- they did get some concessions because of senator kyle and senator mcconnell's good work and senator graham so i think that all and all, that one is not a big of deal. i was surprised a little bit and i understand there are some concerns about the tax bill, the bush tax cuts being extended but some people thought republicans should have held out and got something better in january. i'm not that convinced. i think that if everyone's taxes would have gone up this saturday, that president obama would have been in a position to say, fine. i'll sign the -- you know, i'll sign a one-year extension and everyone would have said sign it, sign it. and we would have been in a bad

situation. i think scott brown is doing a great job. >> are you really speaking to the heart of the matter, it's one thing to campaign and another thing to govern. once you get in there, you realize the nuances to some of these bills to say on the taxes, it's going to go up. we have to vote on something. >> that's true. he's proven he can win statewide. i think he'll be able to win re-election again. he has a book coming out soon that will talk about his life and from all accounts, i hear it's very powerful and i think massachusetts can be very proud of the senator that they have. >> it's going to be very interesting because you got to realize he's from massachusetts. pleasing the tea party and pleasing the people of massachusetts. he's going to have to make a choice. we'll see if he does get a primary challenge and speaking, we're talking about the start treaty, now the russians are saying we have to quickly pass the start treaty, remember, the president had to go to hawaii quick. we had to pass the start treaty and get it to russia or else, not going to change anything. it turns out the russians want to take a look at this thing and slow down a little bit, especially this little paper that was attached from the senate. >> yeah, could it be that in

russia, they have a more open and transparent democracy than we have here? i thought it was interesting that they actually have to read the bill three times. that's not unusual in other parliaments. just imagine if our congress had read it once. imagine what would they have come up with out of it? here's the thing. russia decide we're going to slow this a little bit. at the end of the day, i think they'll actually get it done. it is marginal in the health it will provide in protecting the world. meanwhile, brian, as you and i have talked about, terror suspects all across europe are being arrested and we've got a threat of home grown terrorism right here in our country, we're not about to go to nuclear war with russia. they did rush it through. and i think that the senators have a bad taste in their mouth about how the administration went about getting this done. >> yeah, that and shark safety were the two emergency items that had to get done during the lame duck session. thanks so much. always great to see you. >> thanks so much. meanwhile, if you're looking for a job, of course, you're not alone. but our next guest says there

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends", time for your news by the numbers. first up, $500,000. that's how much this snow storm will cost a jeweller in north carolina. the jeweller said if it snowed at least three inches on christmas, he'd refund his customers -- he'd refund his customers. they got seven inches of snow. oh! don't make those kinds of bets. next, $34 million. that's how much money the comedy little fockers made at the box office this weekend squeaking out a number one spot despite soft sales. barely beating "true grit" which i want to see. and finally, 60, that's the age difference between hugh heffner and his new fiancee. the playboy founder announcing he's engaged to 24-year-old playmate crystal harris. hef is 84 years old or 84 years young. >> that's what it is. >> she's a looker. >> yeah, she is. >> meanwhile, have you been having difficulty this year finding a job? last year?

the current unemployment rate at 9.8%, that's no surprise. good news, you may have more career opportunities than you think at least in certain fields. >> so where are the jobs? joining us is michael irwin from careerbuilder.com. good morning, michael. >> good morning. >> what are the best fields this coming year in which to find work? >> you know what? i'm here to tell you that this year is going to be better than it was last year and pretty much across every field, there are jobs being added. of course, health care is going to top the list. it's pretty much been recessionproof since the recession started and that's just not nursing jobs and doctor jobs, that's accounting, that's food service and marketing, everything put into health care, if you can find something in the health care s, you'll be golden this year. >> are you going to call these places directly? >> you'll need to use every tool that you have available to you. get on line. the majority of jobs will be on

line. number two, social networking is a great thing. twitter, facebook. get on there and talk to people. let them know you're looking for a job and they may know some hidden positions you can't find. >> one of the sectors that's hiring is marketing. a lot of marketers are on twitter and they realize the value of social networking and it might show you the initiative if you're having a conversation with the marketing director. >> definitely and marketing is going to be so important in 2011 because companies need to rebuild their brand and the way they're going to do that is being creative people on the marketing people so that's a great place to start is twitter or facebook and really promote yourself to the marketers out there. >> you talked about the health care industry. looks like the best jobs for the coming year, registered nurse, dental hygienist, physical therapy assistant, things that require education. you can't just decide come january that you're going to get a job in this field. you have to go back to school maybe for some of these.

>> definitely and i really believe that these jobs are showing up as the hottest jobs because of the aging population. we're going to need more people in physical therapy. we're going to need more nurses so this is the reason why they're in such demand. you're right, you have to go back to school to get certification for these. but there are a lot of jobs in health care that do not require additional training. >> yesterday, "wall street journal" had a piece about all the on-line jobs that are available. they see a spike upwards of four million jobs available on line. that sounds incredible but as you know, working a career builder.com, there are certain ways to make you really stand out. are there certain specific things that people can put in their resumes on line so it doesn't get mushed in with all the mess that's out there? >> the number one tip you have to remember in this environment is that you need to take some of the same wording that's in the job posting and make sure it's in your resume. right now, they're getting thousands of applications and resumes for one position. so they're using computers to scan it. if you're using some of the same language that's in the job posting, you have a better chance of your resume jumping to the top of the pile and getting

that callback for an interview. >> all right. so you have marketing down there. you have accounting down there. so that's going to be important. go to these places directly. don't wait for them to pop up in your newspaper. go to on-line sites and social networking sites. >> definitely. >> thanks so much for all the tips. >> all right. coming up straight ahead, we're talking a little snow. >> yeah, snow storm paralyzing the east coast. are you stranded or waiting for someone who is? stick around. we have the latest on delays across the country next. and also, send in your tweets with your pictures. we have a lot of them from georgia and south carolina this morning. >> with four terror plots exposed in this past week alone, americans can't help but wonder is there another attack on the horizon and do we have the right people on top? we have the panel of terror experts standing by to debate that. >> plus introducing the sobriety pill. does this really mean you can drink all night? then go to work. how this remedy might work.

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>> it is a big blizzard here in new york city.

a live look here where mother nature dumped more than two feet of snow on the city overnight. >> blaming the woman. >> all the snow created a nightmare for travelers. fox 5's john huddy is live from new york's penn station with more. what is travel like there? >> it's been rough going, i'll tell you. one of the issues this morning by the way i'm standing in front of a snow bank on the corner of west 33rd and eighth avenue, really the heart of midtown and this area would generally be humming with traffic but you can see that we got one guy dancing behind me. you can see it's come to a stand still. one of the big reasons the plowing this morning. it's been very difficult, a lot of cars marooned on the side of the roadways. in terms of traveling often you a city reliant upon the plowing. it's been difficult. well, if you have to come into the city, you transportation. well, the subways, there's been new

cancellations, a outside of penn station, a lot of problems with the northeast corridor of amtrak. the train stretching between new d.c. washington. updated numbers. to run. acela express from my understanding has been canceled. lot of issues there. destinations. yesterday evening. night. sir, real when? 11:00. matter. >> doesn't matter? >> you got to be exhausted. not. to

do. outstanding. doing a good job outside of penn station here. walking is here in new york city. back to you. >> apparently dancing is still ok. you can still do that. >> i want those guys on my street. that guy who was traveling wasn't even wearing one glove. he's like, i got this. i can handle this shovelling. >> wow. >> hey, john. i'm just -- john, huddy, are you still there? >> i'm still here. >> being that you're out and about a lot, does the company pay for your snow outfit? >> no, they don't. why, do you like it? >> it looks like that's something they should be paying for. >> it's fabulous. >> it blocks the wind. >> thank you very much. >> i work hard on it. >> new boots, by the way. new boots. >> nice. >> just got them. >> i'm glad that we got to the heart of the issue. thanks so much. >> meanwhile, several states this morning declaring state of

emergency because of the storm. states are north carolina, virginia, maryland, new jersey, maine and massachusetts. >> a viewer wrote in and said by the way, you mentioned state of emergency, that means only official vehicles need to be on the roads. if you're out there trying on go to your job today, you are not allowed to be on the road. only ambulances, fire, police and police should be on the road. not just heading down going shopping today. you shouldn't be out there. >> in philadelphia, you can't be on the road and cursing because you get fined and you get in trouble. the storm also forcing some of the country's busiest airports to shut down. you have laguardia closed, newark closed, j.f.k. is closed now but it is expected to reopen at noon. we' we're still holding on to that, right? all flights in and out have been grounded. >> that's not helpful that it's open. you can't believe how many people are stranded at the airports or having to sleep there. if you've ever done, it it's highly uncomfortable. you can see if your flight is

canceled by logging on to foxnews.com. you can just click on the check your flight link on our home page and enter your information. we'll have that for you so you don't have to go to the airport if your flight is canceled. >> grab your pen and paper. find your airport. if you're heading to any one of these, write this phone number down for your respective airport there and you can call them directly as ali keeps saying, do not call the airline itself. don't call southwest. don't call delta. call the airport. they're the ones making the rules whether or not flights can land there. >> the storm also affecting train and bus travel. the numbers for amtrak and greyhound are posted on the screen to the right. amtrak announcing minutes ago it will resume service between new york and boston but that service is limited. delays are very likely. >> there's new video out of pennsylvania, the latest target of that massive winter snow storm. officials in philadelphia declaring a snow emergency as residents wake up to nearly a foot of snow on the ground there. >> yeah, the powerful winter storm wreaking havoc on the

roads. providence, rhode island, a car collided with a snow plow on the icy highway and boston taking a big hit from the blizzard. right now, they're seeing the high wind right now. 20 inches of snow expected in parts of massachusetts and 60,000 without power in parts of the state. >> the effects of the blizzard being felt to tampa international. some flights delayed until tuesday night. another way to get where they're going. some are making the best of it. looking at their delays as an extended vacation. >> and that buzzard we just saw, that was up in boston. >> he was covered in ice. >> the blizzard is -- there we go. the ice formed an eagle. >> no, that's a penguin. >> the blizzard is so intense, even ice itself needs to be protected. at the aquarium in boston, they're wrapping the penguin ice sculptures up to protect them from elements. >> that's a design flaw of ice.

should be able to handle the storm. >> if you have to put bubble wrap around your ice sculpture, you didn't do a good job. with more on the ice sculpture and how to protect it, let's go to maria outside in the elements. what's it like out there? >> right now, we're starting to feel that wind picking up a bit. it's picking up that snow and blowing it into any face. it's beautiful out here. you should go out and join me. we have a lot of snow on the ground, foot of it and we're seeing higher drifts. up to three feet it looks like. that's three feet of a snow drift so that snow is just going to continue to kind of blow around here throughout the day and it isn't good snow ball making snow. it's very powdery so you guys are lucky i can't pick up some snow and throw you guys a snowball in there, it really falls apart so probably won't be making too many snowmen out there throughout the day today and anyway, we take a look at the map. we have most of the snow already falling to the east of new york city. for us, we're starting to see a lot of improvement. just the wind.

otherwise, as you head northward, that's where we're seeing some of the heavier snow. we're expecting significant accumulation throughout the rest of the day. otherwise, current temperatures across the area in the 20's and they're going to be staying like that here in the northeast. >> growing up on the east and maria is right. not good snowball making weather because you have -- you have to pack it when it gets a little moist. you have to wait until it warms up a little. best snow balls to throw at your sister. >> maria invited you guys outside to check it out. that's a good idea. perhaps you should do that right now before i do the headlines. good luck. >> let's go to the rest of the headlines. fox news alert for you. because there's -- check out this brand new video that's dominating the air waves in north korea at christmas weekend. north korean tv today all about kim jong-il and his heir apparent. north korea's state tv is showing this newly edited propaganda video featuring the father and son. communist rulers around the clock. doesn't it get anymore

compelling? an arizona republican lawmaker has been attacked and beaten into unconsciousness. this happened at his pool supply business on christmas day. representative frank pratt is in stable condition at a phoenix area hospital right now. doctors say he has multiple bruises and contusions. police say the 68-year-old pratt was tied up after the beating and was found by his wife. the suspect is still on the loose at this hour after stealing pratt's s.u.v. check out this dramatic footage of a rescue in rough seas off south korea. 15 people hanging on for their lives. standing in the hull of a capsized ferry. this had been hit by 15 foot waves and several cars broke loose from chains that were supposed to secure them to the deck of the ship. that caused the ferry to roll over. luckily, everyone on board was rescued and nobody was seriously hurt. could one pill hold the power to fight alcoholism? well, apparently, it could but it's still undergoing testing in europe. the drug blocks brain signals

that make drinking feel good. it's aimed to reduce consumption. if these tests succeed, medicine could win clearance in 2012. could be the first new alcoholism treatment approved in more than 15 years. >> that would be significant. >> sure would. >> all right. 21 minutes before the top of the hour. monday morning before football season. time for almost the final seconds -- the last edition of brian's best. first up, best player. award goes to the ravens player. he went on fire! and not because of the two interceptions, trying to cope with a biting, blustery day, he moved too close to a sideline heater and his blazer blew up. he had an oversized jacket on. he threw off the jacket and was not hurt. meanwhile, that's the game. best game overall, in chicago, the jets feel the agony of defeat, get it? jay cutler finds johnny knox for this strike to break a 31-31 tie

in the fourth. cutler, three touchdown passes was moving his team at will. mark sanchez picked off late by tommy harris to kill any hopes of a comeback. jets clinch a playoff spot and the bears were already division champs. looks like they're getting a bye. quick look at what's happening in the world of sports. >> excellent. >> yes. thank you. did you watch any of the games yesterday? >> no. i was too busy tackling the storm. meanwhile, we've learned of four terror plots in just the past week? so is an attack imminent here and is there enough being done to stop it? >> the imam that proposed the mosque near ground zero about to begin his nationwide tour. but the families of 9/11 victims have their own plan to combat it. trivia question former television reporter advisors. foxnews.com with the

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>> this morning, nine out of the 12 men arrested in last week's massive counterterrorism raid across england will head to court. they're being charged with conspiracy to cause explosions between october 1st and november 2nd of this year. british authorities have not specified potential targets but local reports trying to attack parliament and the london eye. yesterday, janet napolitano ran to the defense of one of the united states top intel officials. the director of intelligence, james clapper. last week, clapper looked confused and out of the loop when it asked about the terror roundup in london. >> well, let's be fair.

i knew, john brennan knew, we also knew there was no connect that had been perceived to anything going on in the homeland. and that we were in perfect connect activity with our colleagues in britain so one of the things i think that should be very clear to the american people is those of us in homeland security who needed to know, we knew. but he's the director, he should be telling him. is last week's incident a minor gap or should we be worried about the confused? joining us is cliff may and ajukt fellow of the manhattan institute, judy miller and security director under president bush elliott joins us. first off to you. does it bother you the way this came out, the director of intelligence didn't know about a plot that was unwound? >> sure, he should have known. he's knew. it shows his staff is not coming

together. the information is not getting to him on time. at least it's bad staff network. >> f.b.i. and c.i.a. technically underneath on the flow chart, judy. so they probably knew, i imagine, but the c.i.a. and f.b.i. didn't tell the guy on top. >> apparently, brian, when you have 1,000 people working for you, you don't have a lot of people in public relations or communications because conductivity may have been great between britain and washington but it wasn't so great within washington. it's a persistent problem. >> it is. four terror plots in the last 12 days. should we be worried about that, cliff may? >> sure we should. terrorists are in the business of killing infidels. if they're not doing that, they're not providing return on investments for those who fund them. it's been more than that. there's a terrorist attack, of course, in iraq that you reported on earlier this morning. not long ago, there was a terrorist attack in sweden.

understanding how it all is connected and how the various terror organizations interrelate and the various things they're planning, that's what we need to be doing. we need to have aggressive intelligence and taking the war to them rather than waiting for them to bring the war to us whether in the u.s., holland, britain or pakistan or anywhere else. >> you know what i'm thinking about, when you see the problem happen in amsterdam. when you see what happens in ra mahdi that you just referred to, does this begin to unite people that wouldn't normally agree against the terror? >> you have to hope so. but i don't really think so. what i see is this is broadening out. once upon a time, you have al-qaida. then you have the little al-qaidas and now we're seeing people not really connected to foreign terrorist organizations, individuals including americans, if anything 2010 was the year in which we saw american terrorists enter the picture. so i think this is getting -- this is getting more and more difficult and complicated and

more and more dangerous. this is really a problem that's growing, not diminishing. >> yeah. >> can i point this out? you also have -- you also have iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world funding hezbollah, funding hamas. if iran gets nuclear weapons, there will be an umbrella over all terrorist organizations everywhere in the world. there is terrorism that comes out of the sunni world and terrorism that comes out of iran and the shiite world. they're not that connected. they did the same thing in iraq and doing it in other places. this is all interconnected and it's one war. >> one thing we found out, too, the arab world is just as concerned about iran. they don't speak about it as we are here. but i want to bring you to something else, with everything we're worried about, with the body scans, now we find out a major story today about how the cargo flights going above our country are really unscreened. are we in danger there because some have speculated dirty bomb

material, you could have different types of explosion material above our skies. not being screened through our system. >> of course, we are. we have roughly 2,000 to 3,000 over flights from 230 airlines across this country. and only about 55% to 65% of that cargo is screened at the moment and of the material that was screened, let's remember when al-qaida and the arabian peninsula sent some bombs or what they thought were going to be bombs to explode in chicago, over in flights, those two planes, cargo in that plane was actually screened. and they still didn't catch those bombs. we've got a long way to go with this. >> because the way it was wrapped. i want you to read what the tsa is saying and i'll let you two guys comment. they say this, other countries have their own cargo protocols that apply to those aircraft. the agency continues to work with industry and international partners to assure the

continuation of these flights. we're not there yet. >> we're not there yet. i'll tell you, we may have been lucked out this time by all the snow storms that closed down airports in northern europe, boston, new york. if they were planning something, it may be the snow that stopped them, not the police. >> good move by president obama planning the snow, cliff. >> yeah, it was. and i think elliott is right. we can't rely on luck. we have to look at probabilities. we have to do our intelligence work. so we see not only what the terrorists might do but what they're possibly planning to do. there's quite a bit of information out there. there's a glossy magazine, as you know, that al-qaida manages to put out. i think we have to be very careful, 2011 with the 10th anniversary of 9/11, that will be a time when al-qaida and others will want to show that they're still relevant, that they still can bring chaos to our shores. >> got to be wary. great job. thanks. thanks for braving the snow and coming in. meanwhile, talk of death panels

had all of america talking until democrats killed the proposal. now the white house is speaking back in that very thing. peter johnson jr. all over it to break it down and what it means. then an update monster storm that dumped two feet of snow in cities across the east coast. how long will travelers remain stranded? we'll answer that question and find that box. ever wish vegetables didn't taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gives you a full serving of vegetables, plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number?

>> welcome back to "fox & friends." quick headlines now for you. after canceling service because of the northeast snow storm yesterday, amtrak now back on track. the train line resuming service between new york and boston on a limited schedule this morning. beware, major delays still expected. and all federal government offices are open for business in washington, d.c. this morning. the nation's capital one of the few areas on the east coast to escape that blizzard. somehow with less than an inch of snow. and an answer to the trivia question of the day is -- the winner is karen hughes, she's the winner and the answer is rick wolf. the answer is karen hughes. she didn't win. rick wolf is the winner from pennsylvania. ali? >> i understood what you were saying, clayton. meanwhile, the obama administration re-introducing a medicare regulation that was dropped from the legislation back in 2009.

starting january 1st, meaning this coming weekend, the end of life planning assistance, also sometimes referred to as death panels will take effect. in this plan, the government will pay doctors to advise them on their end of life care. fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. is here to talk about end of life planning. isn't this important? >> it's important. it's controversial and in my mind, it's disturbing in this sense, the obama administration had walked away from what some allege to be death panels early in the process. >> because they were so controversial. >> they were controversial. and they scared people that somehow the federal government was more interested in ending life sooner rather than prolonging life through competent medical care so she backed away with the proposal originally had been that there would be such a consultation whereby a doctor would meet with his patient or her patient every five years to discuss living wills, durable powers of attorney, what happens in case that person gets sick so now

after publicly walking away from it and the president saying i'm not interested in having you die quietly almost in a secret fashion, the federal government has come forth with this new regulation saying it's not going to be every five years but it will be every year and the physician will be paid for that as part a well care visit. it creates an issue in my mind. is this about patient autonomy or is this about limiting costs? cost controls. is the government saying to us die sooner and reduce the debt or is the government saying to us there is a better path in terms of your medical treatment? that is the dichotomy. that is the issue. and so it was -- and the thumbnail way, well, this is a death panel in the past. people got very, very upset about it and i think they're going to get very, very upset about it again because i do not believe that dr. donald berwick

who is the unconfirmed head of medicare is levelling with people about this. >> we shall see this weekend when the regulation goes into effect. peter johnson jr. thanks for coming on with us. >> good to see you. >> we're on blizzard watch all morning. headed. [ john ] yea, well, there you go.

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>> alisyn: good snowy morning. today is monday, december 27, 2010. right now a massive blizzard is crippling the east coast. a state of emergency declared from virginia to massachusetts

and it's still snowing where the snow is now and what is ahead, we have ha for you. >> clayton: the snow is stopping travel. no one is going anywhere very fast and it's the same story up and down the east coast. an update on what's moving and not and what's stuck. >> brian: and as the imam, remember the imam behind the mosque near ground zero, he decided to take his act on the road to gain support for the mosque in downtown new york. another religious group is planning their own tour with their own message from the 9-11 families. we'll bring that you story because "fox & friends" starts right now. >> clayton: good upon morning. if you're waking up, this is the scene. "fox & friends" bringing you the latest on this massive blizzard moving across a number of states. look at the upper left-hand corner of your screen, that's

times square. that's been cleaned off a little bit. >> alisyn: reagan supposedly open because they didn't have quite the blizzard that we had on the rest of the east coast. we had quite a night here. it was so windy, there were thunderstorms in the middle of the blizzard. almost whiteout conditions. it was really intense here. you can see the times square is still recovering. >> brian: there is a man's torso. frees huntington. >> clayton: right. he wanted to walk up and clean some of the snow. the trips were moving. there he is. thank you so much. he's scrubbing it because you have to get the salt out. >> brian: hopefully it's not a hear towel. >> alisyn: then you see our headquarters in the lower right there. we are snowed in, under two feet of snow. >> clayton: it's pretty remarkable. the center of the universe is times square, it's not really cleaned. several states declaring a state of emergency because of the storm. those areas on your screen now. north carolina, virginia, maryland, new jersey, maine and massachusetts. >> alisyn: the storms also forcing some of the country's busiest airports to shut down.

new york la guardia airport is closed as is newark international in new jersey. jfk airport in new york was closed, although yesterday we've been told that it is reopening, but it will have massive delays. they say just 'til 4:00 o'clock today. >> brian: i have some twitter news. as we read on, the storm will not stop lady gaga from releasing her new album at midnight. if you want to see if your flight is canceled, log on to our web site and click on your check your flight link on your home page and enter your information and then your stuff pops up. >> alisyn: the thing is that even if you're across the country, like in seattle, the ripple effect from all of the airports here being closed could still affect your flight. so call the airport yourself before you head out to make sure that you are not stuck there as thousands and thousands of passengers are this morning. >> brian: we've been up early and really tripped up the repeat of geraldo at large, which is normally repeated at 5:00 o'clock in the morning. and maria was up early as well.

you were up early. you didn't have is a chance to get repeat of geraldo at large. what was that like? >> no sleep, sleep. >> brian: this is your super bowl! >> adrenaline. >> clayton: what brian was talking about the ripple effect, what he meant was geraldo going off the air. >> brian: right. >> clayton: what is latest? you've been tracking this thing. it looks like we were outside -- maria and i were making a snow man outside. moving along, we're outside and it looked like the sky opened up and there was no snow coming. will that be the case this afternoon? >> we are starting to look better. you saw some clouds starting to clear out. so it is much better here in new york. it's going to stay cold here for today and also as we head into tomorrow. those winds will still be blowing some of that snow, especially for the first half of today here in new york. but as we head northward, not looking too good. maine still getting hit hard. the blizzard warnings in effect. you can see that one band of

snow producing very heavy snow. snow of one to two-inches an hour. we'll see how much snow they get here as that storm continues to move out of the area late tonight and that's when the blizzard warnings will be out across parts of maine. wind advisories being issued and our blizzard warning across the state of new jersey has been canceled. now we have a wind advisory out there. that's what we're talking about, that even as the storm moves away, we stopped seeing that snowfall, but the winds will be causing problems. even though jack is open, i don't -- jfk is open, i don't think we'll see a whole lot of activity with the winds. blizzard warnings still here in new york city. but that will likely be canceled. and we'll see those wind advisories beginning to move northward. much of the state of maine. cold, 22 in new york. 23 in philly. factor in the wind, and it is

even colder. single digits is what it feels like in philly and new york city. clayton and i can confirm that. >> brian: yeah, 'cause you were outside. >> clayton: yeah. it's blustery. look what people are dealing with. new york city was taken literally by storm overnight, even with thunder and lightning. >> we moved here from arizona a few months ago. this is my first real winter. i'm terrified. this is horrible. >> clayton: it's cold pizza. that reporter should have noticed that. >> brian: if you're miss ago box this morning -- missing a box this morning, we can tell where you it goes. >> clayton: the blizzard leaving parts of the big apple buried. crews are working 12 hour shifts to clear the city's 6,000 miles of roads. >> alisyn: i didn't know we had that in new york until this morning. boston getting a big hit. up to 20 inches of snow is expected in parts of new england. this as 60,000 people are

without power in southern massachusetts this morning. that's horrible not to have heat. >> brian: more extreme weather in the southeast. atlanta got its first white christmas in 120 years. snow as far down as savannah. carolinas, a couple inches in south carolina to a foot in raleigh, north carolina. snow caused thousands of fender benders across the south. a lot of people from new york moved there to get away from this weather, it followed them. >> clayton: on the phone we have amtrak spokesman, we've been tracking some of their delays. what's the status of the trains? >> we continue to run normally. that's the good news, between washington and new york city. we've been doing it all weekend. but folks who have been trying to get north to boston had problems yesterday because of the blizzard. we had to cancel eight trains. we're running limited service this morning and trying our best to keep that service going for the remainder of today between boston and new york.

>> brian: what would this -- is it something as simple as the third rail has to be cleaned? >> it's what we're dealing with is the blowing and drifting of snow. we have four foot drifts in certain areas on some of the tracks. this morning what it is is the equipment issues. we have to get the equipment out of the yard. that sometimes is delayed. we don't anticipate that it will be a big problem. that's why we started running the service. but again, we caution people to keep calling into our 1-800-usa railline. the snow, drifting snow, high wind and cold temperatures all together caused a problem for train travel rather than just snow itself. >> alisyn: so people have been stranded at new york and boston stations overnight? >> no. they haven't been stranded at the stations. we sent out notification to all people who had reservations on our trains yesterday as soon as we realized we were going to be canceling the service. so we did the job letting people

know where we were. i'm sure not everyone got the message, but we certainly reached out to people to make sure that they stayed safe and warm and not head out to the station. >> clayton: cliff cole from amtrak thanks for updating us on train service. >> okay. >> alisyn: let's get to the rest of your headlines. a fox news alert, security forces have arrested six men from morocco accused of planning attacks there. they were experts in making bombs and planned to set them off in unspecified chris. they also planned car bomb attacks against foreign interests in their own country. and new video just into the fox news room from rome where it's been confirmed a package found this morning outside the greek embassy did contain some type of explosive device. that bomb similar to the ones that exploded at both the chilean and swiss embassies last week. an anarchist group claiming responsibility. today's earlier reports that

additional suspicious packages at the embassies in venezuela, monaco and den mark were false alarms. a swine flu outbreak in great britain. 24 people have been killed there by the h1n1 flu strain since the end of october. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention say the swine flu risk here in the u.s. is still fairly low. tina marie has passed away after reportedly suffering from a seizure. she developed a lasting legacy with hits like "lover girl," "square biz "with mentor rick james. she was signed by motown in 1976. but the label did not release her music until she joined forces with rick james three years later, she was 54 years old. those are your headlines. >> clayton: if you were snowed in yesterday, you might have been watching some of the sunday morning talk shows. always great. you perhaps caught chris wallace on fox news sunday and perhaps you saw senator tom coburn, he's

the senator from the most conservative state in the union. you're wondering, which state is that? that's oklahoma. every county there voted for john mccain. that perhaps makes him the most conservative senator in the country. he says right now we're facing such big problems with debt and unemployment that if we don't cut spending, we could face an apocalypse. listen to what he said. >> i think you'll see a 15 to 18% unemployment rate. i think you'll see 8 to 9% decline in gdp. i think you'll see the middle class just destroyed if we don't do this and the people that it will harm the most will be the poorest of the poor because we'll print money to try to debase our currency and get out of it and what you'll see is hyper inflation. so we don't have a lot of options other than living within our means and sending the signal that creates confidence that we can repay our debt. >> brian: we can get confidence and show people we are serious is to go into nondiscretionary spending, go into it and cut down the deficit.

they had a deficit commission. the more people like tom coburn come out and say we got to cut spending, the more people realize these aren't people looking just to get reelected because he says, i'm leaving. you can't reelect me again. he says, i'm not here to be a great republican. i'm here to do something for my country and to do that, he believes you got to go make really tough decisions. tell people they got to retire later to start with. >> alisyn: what really grabs your attention about what he is talking about is that he's giving actual specifics. i never heard that 18% number of unemployment before. but he used it and also said he believes the u.s. only has three to four years to get their financial house in order before that vision that he described as apocalyptic. this is dramatic language that he is talking about. he should know. he was on the debt commission. he knows what he's talking about. >> clayton: a lot of this, it's

refreshing to hear, is backed up by fact. the economist newspaper saying there was a projection where china would overtake the united states as the world's largest economy. the united states with the world's largest economy. projections were 2040. tom coburn saying, you'll see an 8 to 9% decline in u.s. gdp over the next few years if we don't get this under hand. that means china could overtake the united states as the largest economy if we don't do something. >> brian: they're panicking and they're raising interest rates because they're concerned about inflation and some of the things came out about their defense program which is going nowhere fast. we'll follow that. senator tom coburn making tough decision, including cracking down on the 9-11 funding. he thought it was too much. he ended up right. meanwhile, something else controversial coming your way. >> alisyn: remember the imam behind the mosque near ground zero? he's hitting the road in january

to gain support for that controversial mosque. another religious group, however, is planning their own tour with their own message from 9-11 families. we'll tell what you that is. >> clayton: the profanity patrol is about to hit the street. cops writing tickets for swearing in public could cost you $500 bucks.

>> alisyn: controversial imam spearheading efforts to build a mosque near ground zero prompted opponents to speak out on film. we have a clip from a documentary opposing it called "sacrifice survivors." meanwhile, as that and now the imam behind the mosque is plan ago speaking tour to continue

spreading his message about the mosque. what are opponents of the mosque planning to do to get their message heard? let's ask ask the christian action network's national security advisor, ryan. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> alisyn: so on january 15, the imam is going to be starting his speaking tour around the country. i think he's going to detroit first to basically drum up support for the mosque. you spent some time talking to the 9-11 victims' families. what are we going to see in this documentary that you produce z as a result that we don't already know about the mosque or how they feel about it? >> basically what we tried to do with this film was give them the voice they feel has been taken away from them. that's what we meant by sacrifice survivors. what we wanted to give the viewers is a feel for how when they wake up in the morning and they have to go to the area where their loved ones perished or where they went through those horrific attacks, they told us they feel like there is going to be 9-11 all over again for them. >> alisyn: do they feel as though imam is ignoring their

needs and desires? >> absolutely. he says his goal is to increase communication and relations and by now it's clear it's doing the opposite. it's causing tension and hurt feeling, yet he's still going forward with it. that's what really bothered a lot of the 9-11 survivors, that he's not backing down from the mistake after they've already protested to him. >> alisyn: one of the things you found in the course of researching your documentary is that that building, park 51 as it's called, that's two blocks away from ground zero, is already basically functioning as a mosque. there are prayer services that are being held in there, though not many people know about it. >> right. in a way we keep talking about how the ground zero mosque is going to happen. it's going to be built. but in a way, it already exists because in our film, we have footage from inside the burlington coat factory where they'll be building the site and they're already using it as a mosque. they're already having prayer services. >> alisyn: doesn't that in some way support the imam's position that okay, it's already

functioning as a mosque, and none of the predictions about bad things happening has come to pass? >> no, not necessarily, because there is a few different arguments. the first is the questions about his credentials as a moderate, which still exist. and second, the families that had to go through these horrific events, they weren't consulted about that and he's going to be building on top of that a 13 story on the cultural center. imagine if it was 1946 and a general started building a german cultural center from a significant gag. >> alisyn: they all feel differently, is there a certain magical number? ten blocks away, a mile away? is there a consensus? >> no, there is no consensus. the idea is to get it further enough away that they won't

really to see it. because to them, this is the graveyard. and we show in the film about how far the debris went, which includes human remains and it's near where this is being built. what they're saying is that's a graveyard. let's respect it as such. >> alisyn: if the imam wanted to sit down with you and the victims family, would you do so? >> absolutely. >> alisyn: let's hope that part of his speaking tour includes the families. we'll keep everyone posted. thank you for coming. the man who has been predicting this better than the scientist also explain what's really going on next. ice age, anyone? check out these guys stranded at sea and balancing on the back of their capsized ship. the survivors' story coming up.

>> brian: hi, everybody. quick headlines. alaska's joe miller announced he will not stand in the way of lisa murkowski as she begins serving her next term as u.s. senator, but won't stop fighting her either. he will challenge the ballots in court. rough seas off south korea. 15 people hanging on for their lives standing on the hull of a capsized ferry. it was rolled on its side by 15-foot waves.

fortunately, after losing a few cars, everybody on board was rescued. >> clayton: thanks. well, our next guest can clearly say i told you so. in november, the u.k.'s forecasting office claimed this winter would be mild. that's the same office pushing global warming agenda. but here is the forecast for this winter. it's predicted in november by astro physicist and meteorologist, corbett. >> the winter, december to february, inclusive, in britain and europe will be exceptionally cold and snowy like hell frozen over at times. >> clayton: he was right. feels like that outside right now. you're looking at video of an extremely snowy britain from this week. so much for global warping. he says prepare for the ice age. he joins us now. how did you pull this off? how did you manage to be so accurate when everyone else in that office was saying, huh-uh, it's not going to happen?

>> well, the science, so-called, of these scientists you referred to, this failed science based on fraudulent data. we understand that the sun solar and magnetic effect which control weather and climate and we're able to predict this, a long time ahead. so we predicted the december would be the coldest for 100 years, which it has been, as it's shown on this. and we also predicted on the 12th of december that northeast and east usa would suffer the most horrendous blizzards for decades, and we put out a tweet saying you ain't seen nothing yet. >> clayton: we haven't seen anything yet and because you now are predicting that there is global cooling taking place and that seems to fly in the face of what we're hearing at large. in fact, today in the "new york

times" piece about the trend of global warming and their argument is, from scientist, they say because we're seeing global warming, that's why we're seeing such weather extremes. do you buy that science? >> no. it is complete nonsense. it's fiction. it comes from a cult ideology. there is no science in there, no facts to back them up. historically, the ohm correlation between carbon dioxide and temperatures over millions of years is that world temperatures drive carbon dioxide levels. not the other way around. they fiddle the facts in order to justify political attacks, carbon trading, extra taxation on the public. >> clayton: it appears the critics would say, hold on a second, pierce. we're seeing global ice sheets melting and the arctic circle being opened up so much that russia is claiming land up there. what do you say to them?

>> fine. ships have been up there before. it's all happened before. in fact, it is now closing up again in the arctic and the antarctic has been cooling for the last 30 years. we are just past the peak of a world temperature rise and we are now falling and it's going to carry on falling in general fall for the next 25 years. and all these major extreme events around the world, the biggest one such as the heat wave in russia and the floods and the ending of the heat wave and the ending of the floods in pakistan were predicted by us using our solar magnetic theory, which we find out more on weatheraction.com. >> clayton: i want to get your twitter address because i'm going to start following your address. what is that? >> twitter address is

twitter.com/pierce underscore corbett. >> clayton: we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> clayton: have a good new year. it looks like the ice age has arrived here in new york city. we're back with the latest on the blizzard that's buried the east code under two feet of snow. plus, forget having your mouth washed out with soap. one guy learned the hard way that the police are handing out tickets for profanity. what? >> brian: don't beat me.

>> alisyn: i don't know if we mentioned this, but there is a massive blizzard up and down the east coast. >> brian: feels like it stopped snowing here. >> alisyn: here it has, but now it moved to boston and maine and connecticut. you can see the aftermath. look at midtown manhattan. she's virtually shut down. >> clayton: a lot of states declaring a state of emergency this morning because of the storm. take a look at these states. these are the ones doing it. north carolina, virginia, maryland, new jersey, maine and massachusetts. one of our viewers wrote us and said let america know if they're around one of the states that have a state of emergency, only ambulances, only police vehicles need to be on the road. you should not be on the road right now.

>> brian: that's a good point. did they shut down the tree here? >> alisyn: sure. you can walk. you're allowed to walk. the storm has also forced some of the country's busiest airports to shut down, as you can imagine. new york la guardia airport is closed. so is new york international. jfk airport in new york was closed yesterday. we have been told it will be reopening, but delayed to 4:00 o'clock today. you can see if your flight was canceled by logging on to our web site and click on the check your flight link on the home page and enter your information and you can call the airports themselves. >> brian: you make it sound so easy. >> alisyn: well, it's easier than calling the airline. i know that much. >> brian: take a live look at reagan airport in d.c the sun is coming up. they didn't get hit too badly. runway there is clear, but a different story in new york. joining us right now on the phone, port authority spokesperson steve coleman. steve, what's happening by you? >> i guess as you just reported,

we have 1,000 people out there trying to plow the runways to get the airports back up and runs as soon as we can. >> clayton: we hear the 4:00 p.m. delay at jfk, is that still holding steady for people trying to get on the flights? >> we're working on getting them up and running sometime this afternoon. i do not expect normal air traffic to happen this afternoon. that's why people have to keep calling their airline and make sure they have a flight and they have a seat before they go to the airport. >> clayton: one of the big issues, as maria, our meteorologist keeps saying, is it's not just clearing the runways, it's all the wind and these 40, 50 miles an hour wind gusts. even if you get the runways back up and running, that's a major concern still, right? >> absolutely. i think that's what's kept the runways covered with snow throughout the night. constantly plowing, constantly salting and sanding. but if the wind keeps glowing, we have to keep repeating that operation time and time again. hopefully the winds will die down. >> brian: i'm wondering how do

you decide who gets on what flight? how do you decide who is most important? >> the airlines make that decision. >> brian: so you don't tell the airline, such and such can get going, certain airlineget going and they fill up the planes? >> no, it's up to the airlines when they can get up and running. that's why they canceled a lot of flights yesterday. they have to have the planes in position ready to go. >> alisyn: if people have flights today and they're watching us right now, should they assume that their flights are going to be canceled or that they will be bumped to accommodate other passengers? >> i think they should assume that nothing and basically call their airline and make sure the flight is taking off and if they have a seat on the flight. we don't want people going to the airport thinking they have a flight and finding out they can't get out for a day or two. >> brian: why does jfk seem more ready to go than la guardia or newark? >> i think all three are in the

same situation. the whole area had severe winds throughout the night, heavy snow throughout the night. we've got crews trying to clear all three airports. we're doing the best we can to have the airports operational by this afternoon so the airlines can start getting back into schedule. >> clayton: steve coleman, we appreciate you taking a few moments to update us on the situation. thanks. >> alisyn: 1500 flights just in the new york area in the past 24 hours were canceled. so make sure that you call -- check our web site and call the airport. >> clayton: if you're just waking up and not sure what people are dealing with, this is what people are dealing with around the country, people unable to get to work in new york city after fierce snow, winds crippled the biggest commuter rail system. the big apple one of the hardest hit areas by the storm so far. this scene, some people in new jersey waking up to white stuff. they look pretty, but causing a major headache for drivers. >> sometime you can see 15 feet in front of you. sometimes 30, then sometimes nothing. just out of nowhere the wind is blowing. there was lightning and thunder

before. it's crazy out here. >> alisyn: is he wearing ski goggles inside the car? >> brian: yeah. >> alisyn: new jersey officials say hundreds of accidents have been reported since yesterday. a bus carrying 50 passengers also got stuck on a snowy high. i was on the road yesterday trying to come here, wasn't pretty. all the fish tailing. >> brian: that's true. and not only that, your driver complained about that as well? >> i didn't think he was as nervous as he should have been for the situation. he seemed awfully casual. >> brian: you should drive with someone who cares about you. they don't care about you. >> clayton: i like fish tailing, i don't get to do this very often. >> brian: boston getting 20 inches of snow. travelers there having their patience tested at the airport. >> we thought we made it. we thought we were going to be the last plane out, but then it

turned sour. just go deal with it. >> alisyn: snowfall is expected to finally taper off this afternoon. there is also extreme weather in the southeast. atlanta had its first white christmas in more than 120 years. there was snow as far south as savannah, georgia. in the carolinas, snow totals range from a couple inches in south carolina up to a foot in the raleigh, north carolina area. the snow reportedly caused thousands of fender benders there. in west virginia, all in that southeast area, they are in the thick of it. >> clayton: my sister just moved from savannah. she officially moved from there like a few days ago back to pennsylvania. it's always warm in savannah. so the fact they got snow there, she's like, i can't believe it. >> brian: you make her feel better by saying, don't worry about it, or do you dig it in. >> clayton: i let her know that she brought it with you. >> brian: so blame is always good. >> clayton: always worked for me. i'm gog blame this whole thing on the wind. let's check in with maria. that's the biggest issue.

>> yeah. i think that's going to be the issue throughout the day today, throughout the night, and finally beginning to see improvement as we head into tomorrow morning. these are some of the reports that we've received. we're starting to see stronger wind gusts from the overnight hours coming in. 59 miles per hour now out of jfk overnight. white plains, new york, 67 miles per hour. all of these winds are tropical storm force. and that means we also have some wind advisoriesered, just outside the new york city area, but we are still under a blizzard warning. so that does include winds sustained at 35 miles per hour. southwest of new york city, we do have across southeastern pennsylvania, wind advisories. that means winds will be sustained between 25 and 35 miles per hour with wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. we'll see those reports continuing to come on in. jfk delaying their airport reopening and that's going to be the case as we head throughout the rest of the morning here in the northeast. currently the storm is centered right off the coast of cape cod.

westward, we have a lot of snow, so across much of the state of maine and vermont. like you mentioned, also the snow starting to wind down here across parts of the northeast. and that will continue to improve as we head south to north throughout the rest of the day today. and the storm starting to wind down and it sounds like so am i. >> brian: thanks. you mentioned -- >> clayton: did you call her rick? >> brian: i said maria. i know you long for rick. clayton, you were talking about how you jump all over your sister and asking her. we're getting razzed. we're a bunch of babies. we get that kind of snow most of the winter in iowa. just deal with it. is that the feeling in america, we should suck it up here on the east coast? >> i don't know. but that's coming from a twitter person in lost soul. >> alisyn: take it with a grain of salt. >> clayton: i think about people in south carolina that got like a dusting and they shut everything down. this always happens. people in pittsburgh laugh at the people in philly 'cause they're like, we drive up and

down hill, we don't cancel schools. >> alisyn: we've been here since 3 a.m take that, lost soul. we're pretty macho. let's get to the rest of your headlines. we have a fox news alert. an update on last week's terror raids in the united kingdom. 12 men charged with conspiracy. they were charged with preparing for terrorism by testing materials. for four more have to appear in court today. they believe the nine had been plotting a large scale terrorist attack in british landmarks and public spaces. check out this new video that has been dominating the air waves in north korea. it's all about kim jung-il and his heir apparent. north korea's state tv showing this new will he edited propaganda video. look at this. spell binding. featuring the father and son rulers around the clock. >> clayton: they were trying to watch the giants game.

>> brian: i would rather watch this than the giants game. >> clayton: that's true. >> alisyn: listen to this, republican law maker from arizona has been attacked and beaten into unconsciousness. this happened at his pool supply business on christmas day. representative frank pratt is in stable condition at a phoenix area hospital right now. doctors say he has multiple bruises and contusions. the 68-year-old pratt was tied up after a beating and found by his wife. the suspect is still on the loose at this hour after stealing pratt's suv. and brian, milwaukee man gets a $500 ticket for swearing on a bus. you heard me. the man who got the ticket, terry johnson, says he was stunned when he was kicked off a bus by an undercover deputy and was handed a disorderly conduct ticket. he says the ticket infringes on his right to free speech. milwaukee officials say it's a quality of life issue. i can't imagine the fees we would incur. >> brian: especially clayton. you got to see him off camera. in the nfl yesterday, let's

start in green bay. green bay, you looked great. the giants, well, you didn't show up. they're still hung over from the devastating loss by the eagles. rogers was perfect. hall of fame day. four scores over 400 yards, including an 80-yarder to nelson who outruns everybody. packers win. their playoff hopes very much alive. the giants had to have a few things happen for them to get in. the day of the day took place thousands of miles away, jim kelly, other nfl legends played football with our troops overseas. on a military base in iraq. that will count. that's the victory for kelly's kids. he's still got it. coaching icons bowden, stallings, were there. they coached different teams. great job as the football greats giving the troops a taste of home.

that's awesome. >> clayton: thanks. coming up on the show, each year children are being diagnosed with autism, yet funding for research is being cut. autism advocate dr. temple brandon will join us with a prayer for parents everywhere. >> alisyn: does this sound fair? jurors locked in a room through the night because the judge wanted to go on vacation. >> brian: sounds perfectly fair. >> alisyn: is that really the case that there was no other way to do this? that debate is coming up.

>> clayton: quick headlines. new video from philadelphia's lincoln financial stadium why clean-up is underway right now. awe the snow has to be gone before the rematch between the philadelphia eagles and the minnesota vikings. i was upset about this yesterday.

last night's game was postponed. they can play in snow, come on. the storm also wreaking havoc on the roads. check out this accident in providence, rhode island, where a car collided with a snowplow on an icy highway. road crews there are saying be extremely -- they'll be extremely busy all morning long cleaning up this mess. brian? >> brian: thanks. las vegas judge forced a jury to deliberate through the night to accommodate her vacation plans. but she blames the attorneys who blade the trial. was that based on self interest or hard work simply part of the success and the process? joining us right now for a fair and balanced debate is attorney and former prosecutor joey jackson and professor of law at the university of nevada, las vegas, jeff. this sounds fair to you, joey? >> it sounds absolutely fair. let me say this, i've been practicing for 15 years in manhattan and other areas, whether it's the bronks, brooklyn, queens, westchester, nassau county, we have to look

at the accommodation that they make for attorneys in the practice. it's custom area for a judge to accommodate a lawyer's schedule. nome the professional schedule that relates to trial practice, but a personal schedule. in terms of the area of practice, this is done. secondly, it is difficult work to be a juror. we have to finally look at the question of whether it impaired the deliberations at all, were they inconvenienced? they were. but in the final analysis, the jury made a decision, they were comfortable with that decision, and at the end of the day, that's what we have to look to. it did not impair the bottom line. the judge did nothing wrong. >> brian: that may be the case, but is it right? for example, congress had to extend their vacation, put their vacation on hold. the president had to put his vacation on hold. not this judge. >> well, clearly that wasn't the right call to make and i think what we have to remember is this was originally scheduled as a four week trial that became a six week trial. so it wasn't as though this snuck up on the judge completely. the judge could have made scheduling adjustments all along to get to a position where there

was some block of time for the jurors to deliberate before she left on her vacation. it just wasn't any need to make it this sort of college all nighter. >> brian: the judge said, i told the counsel the case had to be done by thursday because i'm packing up and leaving town and going on vacation for two weeks. i guess he felt as though the co-counsels did not respond positively. so therefore, he wasn't going to pay the price. the jury fort most part, we understand, didn't really get that upset, joey. >> no, they didn't at all. let's analyze why it became a six week trial. because the judge was accommodating the lawyers' schedules. judges do this all the time. we have to look at the area of practice and the standards in the legal community. now, the fact is that the judge bent over backwards, she inconvenienced the jury, but they got it right. at the end of the day, do we not want jurors to get it right? if they do, why are we overly concerned? >> brian: jeff, is the pay good enough to keep you there overnight? >> well, again, i don't know how anybody can be so confident that

it was done right. >> the foreperson said so. >> at the same time, you really don't know how putting that kind of stress on jurors may or may not affect deliberations. it's a little like putting the genie back in the bottle. just standard operating practice, you really shouldn't be keeping jurors past about 8:00 o'clock, 9:00 o'clock, at night. sure, there may be times when you want to make adjustments, but you really don't want to put them into the wee hours because that frustration can be to the detriment. >> we can speculate all day. but ultimately the jurors said, they said, we reached a conclusion. the only reasonable conclusion we could reach. we're confident with that conclusion and the fact that we were inconvenienced -- >> the jurors, what else are they going to say after they rendered a verdict? >> they could say a number of things. >> we rendered an idiotic verdict? >> brian: it's going to double people's efforts to get out of jury duty. >> jury service is important!

>> i think it's the thing we have to keep in mind, is just as a general rule, you're inconveniencing jurors enough. if this sort of thing should just not happen and the judge should have made the appropriate adjustments. >> brian: thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> brian: we might need you tomorrow. stay where you are. straight ahead, if more american children are being diagnosed with autism than ever before, why are we continuing to cut funding for research? someone who overcame the struggles of autism here next. first, let's check in with gregg jarrett who is filling in on "america's news room." what have you put together? >> coming up, we'll latest on the blizzard of 2010. people are digging out from under. why is the u.s. stepping up security at hotels and shopping malls? the next targets. and while you were sleeping, were the so-called death panels resurrected? coming up on "america's

newsroom" in about ten from now. see you then.

>> alisyn: wait until you meet our next guest. dr. temple is one of the most accomplished researchers and advocates of autism in the world. she herself was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, but now worries that the cost of the massive school budget cuts across the country will be much

greater for those who have autism. joining us is the author of "the way i see it" dr. temple. you're concerned with the drastic increase in autism cases. are there more children suffering from autism or are they being overdiagnosed or more diagnosed? >> you've got half the people in silicon valley, the engineers who keep the station running, socially awkward. they've always been here. that hasn't increased. they've just got a new name. but at the severe end, that's where i think there is definitely some increase. one thing i'm really concerned with all the budget cuts, they're taking all the hands on classes out of the schools, art, wood shop, sewing, all the things that kids can do hands on. that's the kind of stuff that i really excelled in as a kid. >> alisyn: other kids, you say those are the classes that would allow them to come into their own rather than just being marginalized? >> art was always encouraged and

claire danes did a wonderful job in the movie showing all the projects that i did and the things i designed and those were shown accurately. if i hadn't had the great science teacher shown, i wouldn't have achieved because he motivated me to study. autism is a very big spectrum. at one end you have the geeks and nerds and they're still the same one i went to school with in the 50s. socially awkward. at the other end, you got speech delay, which i had. and you've got people that remain nonverbal. and takes different kind of teaching to work with the smart geeky kid than it does to work with somebody who has more severe autism. >> alisyn: that's great that you point that out because the stereotype is that they're vacant, noncommunicative. you didn't speak until you were 3 1/2? >> that's right. i had severe speech delay and i had very good intervention. i cannot emphasize enough the importance of getting kids into early intervention. i went to a good nursey school.

>> alisyn: what did they do for you? >> one to one. lot of engaging. the worst thing you can do with a three-year-old is nothing. you got to engage them. teach them turn taking games, teach them words. engage them one to one. that's the important thing. >> alisyn: do you know there is lots of controversy about vaccines and autism, whether or not childhood vaccines are the catalyst to autism developing. where do you stand on that? >> i think there is a broader thing with environmental insults because there is a new study where being next to the highway. there has been other things about people next to plastic factory and things like this. but it would be interacting with susceptible genetics because autism is very strong genetic based. so something in the environment interacts with genetics. >> alisyn: the study you're talking about found kids who lived next to highways have a higher incidence of autism. so it seems like there is something in pollution? >> that would be pollution and i

read another stood where pollution was related to learning problems in general. but it's interacting with the susceptible genetics. what might be happening is you have a brilliant -- someone who is a brilliant hasberger guy getting down to a -- it's complicated. it's a lot of little variations and tiny bits of code. there is no single gene for autism. >> alisyn: basically the answer is what? for parents and teachers to be just hyper vigilant about kids who seem to be showing signs of this? >> if you see a two-year-old is not talking, don't wait. service is not available, get some grams and students and get somebody to start working with the kid one on one because the worst thing you can do is let him sit in the corner and rock. you got to engage them 20 or 30 hours a week. >> alisyn: thanks so much for coming in. a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you for having me. >> alisyn: more "fox & friends" in just a minute.

>> you almost didn't make it outside with me. >> brian: finally we have a russian co-host. >> clayton: slovakia. >> brian: thank goodness we had shelter because it's so cold. >> clayton: we had the u.k. scientist on. he's a scientist. so many people e-mailing and wanting to know his twitter